Foreword Harvey C. Mansfield Acknowledgments Introduction: Liberal Education and Politics Giorgi Areshidze and Paul O. Carrese Part I. The Role of Courts in Constitutional Democracy 1. Why We Need More Judicial Activism Suzanna Sherry 2. Legal Realism, Innate Morality, and the Structural Role of the Supreme Court in the U.S. Constitutional Democracy Karl Coplan 3. Is Judicialization Good for Democracy? A Comparative Discussion Ayşe Zarakol 4. If There’s a Right, Is There a Remedy? The Federal Courts’ Role in Remedying Constitutional Violations Barbara Kritchevsky Part II. Law and Executive Authority 5. The Necessary and the Good in Lincoln’s Wartime Reconstruction Policy Sean Mattie 6. Progress, Return, and the Constitution C. Kevin Marshall 7. Ideas Meet Institutions and the People Rise Up: Four Classic Ideas and the Strange Century of Health Reform James A. Morone Part III. Liberal Education, Constitutionalism, and Philosophic Moderation 8. The Polis, the State, and the Constitution James R. Stoner Jr. 9. Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands Peter Minowitz 10. The Founders and the Conditions of Popular Political Deliberation David R. Upham 11. Tocqueville on Liberal Democracy and the Philosophy of Moderation Paul O. Carrese 12. John Rawls and EU Multiculturalism: Is Post-Enlightenment Rawlsian Liberalism Sustainable? Giorgi Areshidze Publications by Murray P. Dry Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Spirit of Moderation Contributors Index